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G. F. FILLEY;

RANGE.

No. 497,271. Patented May 9, 1893.

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No. 497,271. Patented May- 9, 1893.

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Uivrrn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GILES F. FILLEY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

RANGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 497,271, dated May9,1893.

Application filed February 8, 1892. Serial No. 420,731- (No model.)

rial No. 413,426, whose object is the more.

equable heating of the oven and other parts of the range, and consistingpartly in the means whereby the heat, in a single or sheet flue range isconducted more evenly from the fire place over the oven, and deliveredmore evenly into the flue beneath the oven, and

partly in a provision for applying the heat more advantageously totheoven bottom. In the construction referred to no hot water reservoiris shown.

In the present construction a reservoir is employed, and the improvementconsists mainly in the means whereby, in a sheet flue range, the heat isapplied more evenly and efiectively to the reservoir, as well as moreevenly to the oven of the range, than hitherto has been practicable,substantially as is hereinafter set forth and claimed, aided by theannexed drawings, making part of this speciflcation, in which- Figure 1is a view in perspective of the iniprovcd range, the near side wallthereof being removed and portions of the remainder of the constructionbeing broken away to exhibit the interior; Fig. 2 avertical,longitudinal section of the range, on the line 2-2 of Fig. 3 which inturn is a horizontal section on the line 33 of Fig. 2; and Fig i avertical cross section on the line 4-4 of Fig. 2. In the last two namedfigures portions of the plates are broken away.

The same letters of reference denote the same parts.

The improvement under consideration is adaptable to many of thevarieties of sheet flue ranges. The form exhibited is substantiallysimilar to that shown in the application above referred to, andexcepting as its construction is varied or supplemented by theembodiment therein of the present improvement the range, A, is of afamiliar type.

B represents the oven, 0 the fire place, D

the flue leading from the fire place above the oven, E the sheet-flue, Fthe bottom flue beneath the oven, G the escape flue, and H a blind flueat the front end of the oven. The range is extended, at a, to receivethe reservoir I. The end-plate, a, of the range has an opening, a in itto enable more or less of the heat which enters the sheet flue E to passinto the space, J, within the extension 0., for the purpose of heatingthe reservoir therein. Said opening, a extends substantially throughoutthe width of the flue E, and, in a vertical direction, from a pointabove the level of the lower end of the reservoir, down- .ward andpreferably well down to the level of the oven bottom at which point theshell, a of the extension at is joined to the main portion of the range.At or in the vicinity of the lower edge of said opening the deflector,K, is arranged within the sheet flue. This deflector serves, so far asthe oven is concerned, the same purpose as in the construction referredto; that is, to divide the heat current which descends through thesheetflue and direct its portions respectively toward the front and the backof the range. But in the present'construction it serves an additionalpurpose, namely, to direct the heat to better advantage against thereservoir.

For if the heat were allowed to pass downward through the sheet flue inthe ordinary manner it would concentrate more at the center of the flue,and in such event the heat is applied if at all to the central portionof the reservoir. But when means such as the deflector mentioned areemployed the heat, instead of drawing away from the front and back ofthe stove into the central portion of the sheet fine, is applied evenlythroughout the width of the sheet flue and in consequence evenlythroughout the opening, 0?, against the reservoir beyond, and resultingfrom this the reservoir is more readily heated. The deflector also, andirrespective of its acting to divide the heat current, serves to checkthe descending heat-current and to influence a portion of it to passthrough the opening a into'the space J.

In connection with the parts thus far described the flue strip, L,extending from one side of the escape flue and into the flue F, curvinground toward the front and toward the fire place end of the stove, isemployed in substantially the same manner as in the construction abovereferred to. Thatis it serves to direct the heat which passes downwardthrough the opening, 10, at the back of the deflector to better advantage beneath the oven, and substantially as explained in theapplication above named. Thus by combining the described deflector withthe sheet flue, and in the vicinity of an opening such as describedleading into the space containing the reservoir, several desirableresults are simultaneously accomplished in a sheet flue range: the heatis applied more evenly in the upper part of the construction, moreevenly to the oven, and more effectively to a hot water reservoir, thanhitherto has been attainable, and all in a simple and economical manner.In carrying out this improvement I desire not to be restricted to anyspecial form of extension, at, or reservoir 1, nor to any specialrelative arrangement of said reservoir and the end-plate, a, of therange, so long as said end plate is so constructed, and the reservoir somade and arranged, as to expose the reservoir to the heat descendingthrough the sheet flue E, and it is possible to carry out theimprovement when the front wall, '5, of the reservoir and the end-platea, are substantially one and the same part.

I claim- In a range the end a, forming one Wall of the rear flue E, andhaving an opening a to enable the products of combustion to pass intothe space under the water reservoir, the deflector K, arranged in saidflue at the lower edge of said opening, and the bottom flue F, havingtherein the curved flue strip L, for deflecting the products ofcombustion evenly over the under side of the oven, and the escape flueG, all in the combination as described, whereby the products ofcombustion in their escape from the fire box are led under the reservoirand are distributed evenly under the oven, and finally pass out of theescape flue.

Witness my hand this 23d day of January, 1892.

GILES F. FILLEY.

WVitnesses:

V. G. FILLEY, C. D. MOODY.

